Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by jrochkind1 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:21PM
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So one reason I choose open source is precisely because of the legal guarantee that there will be comptetition in providing services based on it.
If I become dependent on it, one company can't control the pricing of people offering hosted services, because it's open source, nobody needs their permission to host it. "vendor lock-in" does not exist with open source.
If that was incompatible with ES's business model for a main stream of revenue, as the project IP holder they are welcome to change their license terms.
But what they're saying is that open source was incompatible with their business model.
It is what it is, but users clamoring for the ethical superiority of vendor lock-in and thinking that's somehow open source values is... weird to me.
If I become dependent on it, one company can't control the pricing of people offering hosted services, because it's open source, nobody needs their permission to host it. "vendor lock-in" does not exist with open source.
If that was incompatible with ES's business model for a main stream of revenue, as the project IP holder they are welcome to change their license terms.
But what they're saying is that open source was incompatible with their business model.
It is what it is, but users clamoring for the ethical superiority of vendor lock-in and thinking that's somehow open source values is... weird to me.